While they were there, Kate spoke with a young woman named
Diana,
who is part of an emergency response team that’s become vital in the area,
which has been hard hit by the effects of climate change due to the melting of
the nearby Chiatigo glacier. Guess who she was named after? That’s right! She also named her son William!

“Princess Diana was visiting at around the time she was born,
which is why she got named Diana,” a translator told the
Telegraph of Kate’s interaction with her. “And now her son is William.
Her grandmother went to meet Princess Diana in Chitral, her mum was unable to
travel because she was expecting her.”

This isn’t the first time a royal has met someone named
after Princess Diana or encountered someone who named their child after her!
While he was in Angola,
Harry reunited with Sandra Tigica, a landmine survivor
who met his mother on her
famous 1997 visit to the country. Diana is credited
for raising awareness about the issue by walking through a minefield and
visiting with those who had been affected by the instruments of war.
Sandra now has a daughter named Diana in the late Princess of
Wales’ honour.

William and Kate had a meaningful day in Chitral. Prior to visiting with the villagers, they travelled to see the
glacier itself, which is one of nearly 5,000 in the region – 70 per cent of
which are melting or receding due to climate change, according to scientists.
After their visit, the duke gave an interview in which he
called for more action around the issue, saying leadership is necessary to prevent an “impending
global catastrophe.”

This marks the halfway point in the couple’s tour, which
began with their arrival on Oct. 14 and will finish on Oct. 18. Prior to their
departure, Kensington Palace said the couple would travel
more than 1,000 kilometres during their tour, which was described as the most “complex”
to date due to security issues in the country.